Hyderabad: Veteran Congress leader and the Congress Party MLC T.Jeevan Reddy today demanded proclamation of health emergency in Telangana. Citing the statement of the Telangana governor of the state Tamilisai Soundararajan he said that the health emergency was needed in the Telangana as the governor herself had openly accepted that the state government had failed in preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
Tamilisai Soundararajan in an interview with a national news channel — India Today, has on Tuesday hit out that the state government has ignored her letters to increase tests for corona and contain virus spread and improve facilities in the city and all districts.
She has accused the KCR Government of failing to assess the pandemic and conduct more COVID tests that led to a steep rise in cases in Telangana. The former governor has opined that the virus could be checked from spreading by wide-ranging conduct of tests across the state.
He demanded the state government extend the coronavirus treatment free of cost to the poor people of the state. He also demanded the central government to include the COVID-19 disease into its Ayushman Bharat scheme.
Referring to the warnings of state health minister Etela Rajender to the management of the private hospitals which are fleecing the COVID-19 patients to the of lakhs, he mocked that the warnings did not have any impact on the private hospitals.
He said that it was unfortunate that the state government had not implemented its promise made during its cabinet meeting to hold 40,000 tests per day in the state. He also alleged that the state government had failed to implement the high court orders on the issue.
